All the items I use day to day in order to run my photography business. Here’s my gear, accessories, softwares, and some miscellaneous items I use regularly!
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Gear
Software
Photo wants
Memory + Backup
Gear
My go to work horse camera body! Honestly this body does it all and the auto focus is phenomenal
Z 8
My back up body. Keep this baby in my camera bag at all times *just* in case
Z 6II
You’ll find this lens on my camera most of the time. I love how this can give you a nice wide angle as well as give you a little bit of zoom. Also makes you move your feet a little bit less
NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S
One of my favorites. Will use this one on wedding days if I decide to only shoot with primes!
NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.8 S
A must!! I am so obsessed with this lens. My obvious go to for sports photography. The images from this zoom are chefs kiss 100% of the time
NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S
LOVE. My favorite lens honestly. This for portraits just amazing. I will also use this as a go to lens for wedding days!
NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.8 S
EXTRAS. you never know when you’ll need to pop in a new battery. I personally only like to use the Nikon brand batteries over the third party ones. I have 7 extras on deck. For regular sessions I always take 2 extras for back up but for wedding days ...
EN-EL15c Rechargeable Li-ion Battery
I typically shoot with natural light BUT when I do have a session indoors or a session later at night (for example a proposal) I will pop this on my camera.
Godox V1 Flash for Nikon
Software
Cull down those photos you over shooter. I really like how you’re able to each face close up and how the system rates the eyes open vs shut
Narrative | Best Photo Culling Software | Photographers
Classic… Lightroom classic.
Photo editing and organizing software | Adobe Lightroom
I use pixie set for my website host and for my gallery hosting platform. I really like the ease of this website
Pixieset - Client Photo Gallery for Modern Photographers.
Did someone say freeee portfolio and freee marketing
Instagram
Photo wants
Do I need the 1.2…. No. Do I want this lens absolutely. Maybe one day I will add this to my lineup
NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.2 S
Another free platform for marketing and sharing photos!
Facebook
Memory + Backup
My external hard drive I use for each season. I use the 2 TB for each year and solely work off of these and keep everything off of my laptop
SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2
4TB is my back up! This only holds the RAWS and I keep these for longer until they are filled up!
SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2
Nikon mirrorless takes 1 SD and 1 CF express card. These are the CF express cards I use and I shoot to the CF express slot as back up. I always use a larger CF express card than my SD card
SanDisk 512GB Extreme PRO CFexpress Type B Memory Card
